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The librarian, in turn, accused the preacher of book theft.
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Son of a Preacherman, Choi's latest work, is an autobiographical look at the writer's upbringing in a family of preachers.
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Twenty years ago, moralists tried to strong arm a Texas private school into removing Annie Proulx’s sensitive story Brokeback Mountain from its curriculum.
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Carney is a moralist, a filmmaker of fidelity—and of renunciation, depicting the romantic near-misses and what-ifs that his characters leave behind.
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Jordan McLeod is a former meteorology lecturer at the University of South Alabama and future doctoral student.
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Given that the early days of the conflict cost $1 billion per day, Linda Bilmes, a Harvard Kennedy School senior public policy lecturer and a federal budget expert, said spending is more likely to total the $200 billion in additional funds the Pentagon requested back in March.
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However, rather than blithely dismiss the consequences of legalization with eye-rolling contempt for the puritans, supporters should confront the adverse societal effects of cannabis — the pervasive urban stench, the traffic deaths and the pernicious effects on youth.
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Austere antiquity is in constant conflict with more sensual, modern impulses — a tension that feels productive applied to a story of the Shakers, puritans whom time has proven too pure for this world.
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German news magazine Der Spiegel asks its readers.
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Some readers suggested that Clark should never return, instead taking her ball and going overseas.
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Reconciliation today Searching for a path forward, contemporary Sámi artist and Lutheran catechist Lars Levi Sunna began to produce church art that incorporated and celebrated pre-Christian Sámi symbols – some of the very traditions that had been demonized by clergy of the past.
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But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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